Me? Germaphobe? NEVER!

Having a kid has caused me to become LESS selfish which is a GREAT thing but it has also caused me to look at the world in a whole new light especially concerning GERMS!!!

Don't touch that menu, please don't put your mouth on the table, please don't touch her hands, please don't kiss her hands, PLEASE DO NOT KISS HER ON THE MOUTH are just some of the things I've said in the past 9 months. AH my baby is 9 months old today! I'll have to do a separate post on that milestone but back to the germs.

I have numerous bottles of germX and I find myself constantly washing my hands, her hands, her toys, her blankets, her face. Well, not CONSTANTLY but I do it frequently and I only wash her toys when we take them to a restuarant and lay them on the table because I'm not that crazy....yet.....haha!

HOWEVER, I do not understand the need for this

or these

because you touch the faucet handles to turn it on before you get soap and you wash your hands AFTER you touch the soap pump but you touch the faucet handles AFTER you wash your hands and you dry your hands AFTER you've washed them so really what's the point of an automatic soap dispenser and dispoable hand towels?

However, a touch faucet is the ticket

and I have one of those in my kitchen! SEE!

I am becoming less of a germaphobe the older EA gets but I still wipe her hands after people touch them and I cringe when she plays with toys other than her own. I also bathe her after a lot of people hold and touch her ( I usually bathe her every other night but if we are around alot of other people two days in a row, she gets bathed both nights.) and Yes we've made people mad about not kissing on her lips but who kisses a kid on the lips anyways? NOT US! and NOT YOU when we are around! It is just nasty. Well, I've been planning this post for awhile because everytime a commercial comes on for the automatic soap dispenser and Kleenex hand towels, I think "what's the point in that". So if you have a clue ENLIGHTEN ME because even the germaphobe side of me has no desire to own either one of those! However, the faucet comes in handy in the kitchen especially after cutting up chicken or patting out hamburgers. YUCK!

Here is a pic of EA playing in her wagon yesterday enjoying the awesome weather we are having!